Modern Quotes - Page 15

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

I'd say that the modern social sciences are just showing us why the conditions for implementing Hudud are so demanding, and thus Hudud should only be for the absolutely last resort.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.

Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.

Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end - a resolution. The modern novels I read don't always deliver because I'm looking essentially for a story. As in Shakespeare, "The play's the thing." In particular I read detective stories for pacing, plot and suspense.

Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.

I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.

Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner!

A modern Woman is not necessarily...s omeone who just buys expensive stuff... ...a modern Woman is someone who buys intelligently.

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.